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The 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed his readiness to resolve the crisis rocking the party.
Obi made this known via a a statement, by his campaign publicist, Yunusa Tanko.
This was just as he supported the stakeholders’ meeting summoned by Abia State Governor, Alex Otti.
Otti’s initial call for a meeting of the National Executive Committee was rebuffed by the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, who warned him to stick to governance and stop attempting to pilot the party affairs.
Abure’s reaction stemmed from a recent meeting he had with Otti where the Abia Governor stated his intention to convene a NEC meeting on August 31 to dissolve the executives at the ward, local government, state and national levels on the purported ground that their tenures had expired.
But Abure kicked, saying it was not the position of its governor to consider taking such a decision.
However, Otti ignored the threat and rechristened the NEC as ‘Stakeholders’ Meeting’, insisting it would take place on September 4 at the Government House in Umuahia, Abia State.
Reacting to the development, Obi insisted that the stakeholders meeting was a welcome development.
He opined that such convergence with relevant stakeholders in attendance would be the ideal place to resolve differences and address the crisis rocking the leadership of the party.
He said, “For a long period, we have been seeking solutions to our internal problems. My principal has also waded into discussion with the Labour Party, the TUC and the NLC, all in an attempt to find a solution to the crisis.
“So, the issue is about finding a solution to the problem. We need everybody on the ground. Nobody should feel superior to others. That is why I was impressed with what I saw in the newspaper publications on Gov Otti’s invitation to all the major stakeholders in the party to a meeting.
“We need to look at ourselves and start telling the bitter truth with the ultimate aim of finding a solution to the matter. It is in the interest of everybody. As stakeholders, we are being summoned to state our cases openly. That is a solution-driven idea.
“But once you say you are not attending, it means you are not out for solutions. So we advise everybody to attend and seek the way forward.”
